I just finished watching Bill O'Rielly's show
on the Fox News Network and it was excellent show to say the least. One
segment was about the "Million Youth March" scheduled to take
place on September 5th, 1998. Mr. O'Rielly interviewed 2 leaders of this
march, Malik Z Shabazz and Quanell X, both spokesmen for Nation of Islam.It
started off civil for a short spell and simply turned into a spirited, though
unpleasant exchange. Bill O'Rielly started off by stating what the essential
positive message would be. The event would be about "the guys getting
together and taking responsibility for their lives, their communinities,
families, ect. Mr. O'Rielly asked if there would be "White Devil"
and Anti Semitic rhetoric in the speeches at the rally.

. They responded by reminding the viewers that
"the White man is the devil" and that we had murdered, raped,
stolen, oppressed; and that they are "sons of the slaves" and
we are the "sons of the slave masters". They also stated that
after 400 years of the American Holocaust they were going to rise up, with
financial, political and cultural independence and self-reliance (I have
no problem with that part) also with African-centered education, and though
not stated clearly, separatism. The Anti-Jew statements were typical as
if they came from the source, say a Khalid Muhammad (?) or a "Calypso
Louie" Farrakhan.

I was able to watch much of the Million Man
March on CSPAN and it was really an opportunity squandered by many blackleaders
who spoke at the rally. Some noble efforts were made to soften the tone
of the march, but in the end, The powerful voices were the hateful, sometimes
poetic rantings of the FOI (Fruit Of Islam) representatives. I initially
was very angry at the tone of much of the ideas and the rhetoric I heard.
I was humored and also felt pity for these narrow minded, clueless human
beings. How do I treat militant, black-separatists who express this "I'm
going to get you and make you pay" attitude?

It's very simple. A racist is a racist. The
Ku Klux Klan could not come up with a better self-destruct plan for the
black community in America. A race that believes in their blood line and
supremacy of that blood line are racists. When Hitler started upin the early
1930's it was simply a propaganda campaign. It was rhetoric not action,
but it turned into other than words in a relatively short time.

After millions of lives lost, it seems Germany
won't try that again and have had to repent and pay a tremendous price for
what was done. I think they have done a fair job at that national repentance
and even the symbol, the "swastika" is illegal in Germany to this
day.

Blacks in America are a unique group in that
many of their ancestors were not brought here by their own free will, but
as slaves. After the Civil War, they were given freedom, and some say that's
all they were given at that time. It took another 100 years to confront
this country of the inequality and discrimination still dealt against black
Americans. We have progressed a great deal and I believe Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr. would be quite pleased id he could see what has happened in the
decades since the Civil Rights Movement.

What is the problem with us in the year of our
Lord ,1998? We are showing mistrust in our fellow citizen of different skin
colors. It is not an even handed deal where blacks and whites are equally
guilty. I believe that maybe 20% of our society would qualify as being bigoted
or racists.I don't have the studies in front of me, but I think that is
a safe number. I believe the are far more in the black community than that.
It is not just ignorance but also it is misguided intelligent people (i.e.Camille
Cosby-racist Afro centric intellectual). Did 50 people have to die in the
LA Riots because Rodney King was beaten by some stupid cops? Those people
has nothing to do with when the police officers should have stopped hitting
him. Most people who rioted were opportunists, not revolutionaries and could
you imagine if instead of Reginald Denny stopping some bricks with his head,
he would have pulled out his Colt .45 Automatic with 6 or 7 extra magazines?
I shudder to think how that would have played out.

My family never owned slaves, though my ancestors
wiped out the native Indians of Puerto Rico 500 years ago with not so much
Spanish muskets, but Smallpox I believe. Oops. My motto is get over it.
It wasn't me, I didn't do it, so either dig up my great, great, great, great,
great, great grandfather, prop him up in a chair and hash it out with him,
or just move on. I feel pity for these people who dislike or even hate because
of the color of a person's skin. Whether they are trailer-rattling, backwoods
living, peckerwood Klan boys or Harlem raised, major chip on the shoulder,
inner city, Ebonics talking, "kill the white people" singing ,
black racists. I wish I could change them or get rid of them both. They
have poison in their souls and I think it is largely incurable. This generation
will have to die off and we'll have to start again.

Would these angry people be better off in Africa
today, never to have landed on this blood soaked soil? I doubt anyone really
believes that. The recent lesson of Africa is that you don't need to have
Apartheid Afrikaners in power to have massive murder, hatred and injustice,
happens just fine without the white man helping. Please don't assume I'm
blaming this on pigment because that's not my point. Asia is a prime example
of that one can have a traditional, industrious and homogeneous culture
can manage to cause unbelievable carnage to a region of the world.

Now it's Europe turn: The same region that brought
us Bach, Beethoven &amp; Mozart, some of greatest thinkers of all time,
also brought us 2 World Wars and the greatest killer of all time, socialism/Communism.

America has always and will always be affected
by racism. America is also the least racist country on the earth. Both of
these are true and both statements can coexist. There is no other country
anywhere that has the population and 110 different thnicities that gets
along nearly as well as we do as a nation. Would any of these unhappy Americans
who hyphenate their ethnicity even consider leaving this country and returning
to their country of origin. I seriously doubt it.

Racism was present when the founding father
put together the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill
of Rights. Slavery was also universal in that it was practiced everywhere.
The US was somewhat a unique situation in that all our slaves were from
the continent. Slavery was first banned in England shorty before our Civil
War. We soon followed suit. Slavery was described by some as a rattlesnake
underneath the table where they signed our national documents , or also
referred to as holding a wolf by the ears, one is not comfortable holding
on to the wolf's ears, but one dare not let go because what might happen.
White folks went to war and killed each other by the hundreds of thousands,
a million wounded, the precedented loss of property and incredible suffering
to settle this issue. Lincoln's new political party, the Republican Party,
or "Black Republicans" as some were called them, managed to hold
the country together through a civil war. We really became the U.S. of A
at that time when these lofty ideas were put to the test and the Republic
stood.

Now there are Black, Hispanic, American Indian,
Asian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Women (feminist), Gay and Lesbian, lawyersgroups
for all the above, clubs and fraternities for the same, separate history
classes and studies for most on the above and it's becoming a more dominant
way of thinking. It has been said some of these groups will eventually demand
separate restrooms and drinking fountains, just like the good old days.
Every group is fighting for their own selfish interests and to hell with
everybody else.

Does any person naturally find comfort around
another person just because they have the same skin color? What does a Black
African man from Kenya have in common with a Black American man from Pasadena,
California? Nothing. Wouldn't a white or Hispanic man who is his friend,
shares his values, lives down the street, families meet for a picnic, or
goes to the same church have more similar values?

At the same time when all these groups who I
call "the America Stinks Choir" are going on and on about how
unfair life is in the United States of America, "Educrats" (political
academia, education bureaucrats), push this venom into young people, while
removing from the history books our shared American Culture, our lessons,
our victories, our defeats, our heroes, revising our history and simply
chipping away at every foundation that has sustained us and kept us anchored
as Americans. We hear how George Washington was a slave owner and he had
wooden teeth. Some insist Abraham Lincoln didn't really want to free the
slaves, that we are the only nation in the world to detonate nuclear weapons
on civilians in Japan and how could we do such a thing, We are polluting
the whole damned world with our capitalistic excesses, the Chevy Suburban
is one of the greatest threats to the environment today (o.k. I took a little
liberty on the last one), you get the picture. Goals 2000 is the name of
our new view of American History. Check into it.

I will conclude that the racist hate mongers
are hard to convert. To many, it is in their hearts and minds and it is
uncurable. I would like to take the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nation, Nation of
Islam, MECHA, Atzlan (Chicano Nationalists who want to take back the western
United States for Mexico), the ACLU for egging them on and all other America-Haters
who live here into a coliseum and allow them to kill each other until all
the bad blood mixes together, becomes one, and in death they are what they
could never be in life, United.

Patrick Henry

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